 Hello, good morning. Welcome to the Radiant City Center. Those of you guys in the room, welcome. I decided to pray with you this morning, those joining online. Hope you're having a great morning. I don't know about you, but it's nice to have some vitamin D in my life. It's nice to see actual clouds and not just gray. And so just feeling thankful this morning, thankful for the Lord's provision, the Lord's promises. There's something about the seasons changing when you come from winter to spring. And what's been, what's been kind of dormant underground is now coming back to life through the sun and through the warmth. And just like us, we have all been buried. We've all been once dead, now alive because of the blood, because of the sacrifice of Christ. And I want to read out of 1st John chapter 3. See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God and such we are. For this reason, the world does not know us because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him. That's, sometimes when you read scriptures like that, it's just like, that's amazing. I'm excited for that right now. It doesn't, that is like, seems too good to be true, but the apostle John says, we know that when He appears, we will be like Him because we will see Him just as He is. And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself just as He is pure. Jesus also said, the Beatitudes, blessed is the pure in heart for they shall see God. And we come in, we enter in not in our own merit, not in our own sacrifices, not in our own duty, but we enter in through the sacrifice, the blood of Jesus that covers our sin. And we are presented before Him as children of God, coheirs with Christ. We are now clean spotless because of His blood, His doing, His works. And so this morning, can we just open our hands to the Lord and just begin to thank Him for His sacrifice. God, we thank You for Your blood. We thank You for what You did 2,000 years ago in Calvary. God, I pray for a quick end revelation. Lord, a deeper knowing of Your blood, who You are, that the veil has been torn and we get to look upon You face to face, face to face in the glory of the Lord is transferred from one image of glory to the other. And Lord, we have been adopted. We belong. Lord, I pray right now, if we're just feeling any shame or any bit of an orphan spirit, God, that You would come afresh and You would adopt us because of the blood that was poured out. The purchasing of our hearts, God, was Your sacrifice, not ours. So Lord, we come in and we enter in by Your blood and we enter through Your gates with thanksgiving and praise. So this morning, just begin to lift up Your song to the Lord. Just begin to tell Him, thank You in Your own words before the team leads us, before we get into a song. May we lift the song of thankfulness to the Lord. Whether you're in your car or whether you're in the room, whatever it looks like, the Holy Spirit's not bound by location, but He's welcomed by invitation. So Holy Spirit, we welcome You. We thank You, King Jesus. You are worthy, worthy, worthy this morning. We pick up Your new mercies. We reciprocate a thank You to Your throne and Your heart. Thank You, Lord, that You would be mindful of us. Not only mindful, but that You would take the delight in us, in our song, in our time, in our affection. So Lord, come take delight in Your bribe and Your thankful bribe full of gratitude and thanksgiving to Your heart. King Jesus, we come to You this morning and we give You thanksgiving. We give You an offering of thanks no matter the circumstance, no matter what happened last night or this morning. Lord, we come and we give thanks because of the eternal weight of Your sacrifice. God, we give thanks. Come on, let's just begin to press in just a little more. Thanksgiving and gratitude that flows up from the inside. Let's join with this chorus. Lord, here's our offering of thanksgiving. This sacrifice, you may wash, sing that again. But before I encountered Christ, and I don't walk like I used to, and I don't talk like I used to. Wash from the inside. I've been washed from the inside. When my shame hit the wayside and in my sin, I was washed from the inside. I was washed from the inside. Sing that again. Come on, the presence of God. When my shame hit the wayside and in my sin, I was washed from the inside. I've never been about deserving. It's freely given. Let me tell you. It's over. Sing that again. Come on. It's never been about performance, perfection, or striving for acceptance. Let me tell you. It's over. 9 verse 11 says this, The heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctified for the cleansing of the flesh. How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? So Lord, this morning we come before you, not in our own merit or our own, our own lists or our own deeds, but we enter solely through the blood of Jesus. And Lord, even now, we just pray that Psalm 139 prayer, search our heart, God, know us, test us, try our anxious thoughts, see if there be any hurtful way in us and lead us in the life everlasting. And Lord, we ask of you, even if there's some orphan mentalities or orphan bends where we're not accepting of your beautiful gift of your innocent blood, God, I pray right now that you would begin to align our hearts to receive the fullness of what you purchased. Lord, we choose not to dwell on the regrets of yesterday or the sins of years ago, but God, we choose to enter into your holy acceptance by your beautiful innocent blood. Lord, we forget the regrets, we forget the past mistakes, God, and we just say thank you for covering my shame, my condemnation. Lord, I don't wanna grow out of touch of quite the debt that you've covered for me. And Lord, I don't wanna be an orphan that doesn't receive the free gift that you have for me. And so Lord, I just receive and I just say thank you, thank you. It truly is too good to be true what you have done. My only proper response is to receive and just to say thank you. I don't understand, I don't know why you would shed your innocent blood for a broken human being who never chose you in the first place. But Lord, you delighted to put yourself upon that cross that man did not put you on that cross, but you laid your life down. Holy Spirit, I pray that you would help us. I just want you to pray that with me. Help me Holy Spirit. Help me to receive the free gift of grace that performance and striving and merit will never earn. Lord, I pray right now that if any of us are striving for that acceptance or that love or climbing the staircase to earn God's affection, I pray Lord that you would meet us at the bottom of the staircase and walk with us. And so our response is hallelujah. Hallelujah. This is too good to be true. I don't understand, but I'm thankful for what he did. Lord, I'm thankful for what you did for me. I'm thankful I'm not the person I used to be. I'm thankful I'm a new creation in your name, in your blood by the purchasing of your own son. I am a new creation, the oldest God, the newest come. I am dead to sin and I am alive in you forevermore. And no one can steal your presence from me Lord for you are with me. You are with me. So Holy Spirit, I pray that you would generate a proper response in our heart of gratitude and overflow to your name. So let's just begin to keep singing that chorus that hallelujah. It's only by you. It's only by your blood. It's only by your purchasing. Yes Lord, from our hearts this morning we say we love you. Hallelujah. The prize can separate us from the loved God. Holy Spirit, we ask that you would come reveal the truth to us. Come reveal the truth of the blood, the truth of the sacrifice of King Jesus. Would you open our eyes to see you rightly, to see and to hear and our only proper response is thank you Lord. Thank you Jesus. Thank you that I'm a part of your story, that I've been grafted into your family, that I've been adopted, that I've been claimed, that I've been marked, that I've been set free, that I've been saved, that I've been sanctified. Nothing stands between us Lord, face to face. Let's just keep singing that out. Yes Lord, whether I feel it or I don't. Yes, in the mountain or the valley Lord, nothing. Everything's going right or falling apart. Yes Lord, whether I'm persecuted or I'm prayed. Be high and every low. Season, you remain faithful and true. Come on, let the thankfulness rise in you. Let it shift your perspective. Let it shift your atmosphere. Let it shift your circumstance. Can you just say that in your own words this morning? Thank you Lord. Just begin to thank him for the big things, for the small things. We're just going to, this is group participation, but we're just going to out loud, we're just going to verbalize our thanksgiving to the Lord. Lord, I thank you for my family. Lord, I thank you for my wife. God, I thank you for my son. Lord, I thank you that he's healthy and Lord that he's growing. God, I thank you for food on the table. Lord, I thank you for this season. God, I thank you for what you're doing in my heart. Lord, I thank you for the students that I get to pastor. I thank you for Gen Z and what you're doing. Lord, I thank you for the outpouring that's happening across our nation that's drawing people to yourself. Lord, I thank you for Radiant Church. God, I thank you for Pastor Lee, Pastor Jane. Lord, I thank you for holding their arms up. Lord, I thank you for their forerunner spirit. Lord, I thank you for this room that you handpicked to have ministry happen to you in intercession for the earth. You chose little old me's in this room for your purposes, God. And it was your delight to pour your spirit out into vessels made of clay and wood, God. But I thank you that you turned a broken young boy and you rewrote his story, God. Just begin to make it personal. I know this might be something you do in your intimate space but let's bring it to the corporate space this morning. I've got a reason to praise you, Jesus. I've got a reason to thank you. I thank you for my brothers and my sisters. I thank you for the body of Christ. Lord, I thank you for the city of Kalamazoo. God, we thank you just for what you've been doing, how you've been on the move. Oh, Jesus, how could we not thank you? How could we not bless you? You're so worthy of blessing. You're so worthy of honor. Jesus, if all of heaven is honoring you right now, we want to join in with that honoring. We want to join in with that blessing. We want to join in with those thank yous. Holy Spirit, I pray you open our eyes to what heaven's seeing. We give you a true offering that costs us something just like David. When you asked him to go purchase a field and build an altar on it and the king, he said, David, I'll just give it to you for free and you can offer the Lord a sacrifice. But David said, far be it from me to offer something to God that which costs me nothing. So Lord, we give a costly thank you this morning. Whatever it looks like, whatever it sounds like, whether it's full of tears or it's full of joy and praise and dancing. Lord, we will thank you in every season. Lord, when diagnosis come, God, when hope seems lost, Lord, you're still worthy. You're still holy. You're still there. You're still in the midst. You're still in control. So Lord, we submit and we say thank you. Would you turn our heart of stone to a heart of flesh? And we just say thank you. Holy Spirit, help us tap into a deeper well of thankfulness and gratitude. Let's just begin to keep singing to him. Keep praising him. Keep pouring our affection and our heart on him just like Mary at Bethany. She gave her costly everything that said thank you, Lord. Who is like you? She too. Just begin to pray in the spirit. And I'm going to have the musicians just sing in the spirit. But begin to just sing and pray in the spirit and your understanding, but allow the Holy Spirit to build you up in your most holy faith. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Begin to say the name of Jesus. Begin to pray in the spirit. But let's begin to stir ourselves up. Holy Spirit, we need your encouragement. We need your strength. We even need your awareness that wakes us up to say thank you. Reason to praise you. I've got a reason to thank you. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Let's receive our thanksgiving. Maybe a sweet aroma to your throat. But we want to be like the nine lepers who were healed and didn't come back and say thank you. But may we be like the one that said thank you, Lord. You rewrote my story. You changed my name. You gave me eternal purpose and eternal hope. And we just say thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Lord. So I want to begin to intercede for the loss. Because when we encounter and we receive the love of Christ, we can't help say, but I know people who don't know this. I know people who don't have this. In Hebrews 7, 23, it says, the former priests on the one hand existed in greater numbers because they were prevented by death from continuing. But Jesus, on the other hand, because he continues forever, holds his priesthood permanently, permanently. Verse 25, therefore he is able to save forever those who draw near to God through him. And get this, since he always lives to make intercession for them. Jesus right now is making intercession for those who don't know him, that they would know him. And so what we're going to do is we don't have much time for a rapid fire, but I'm going to invite you. We're all going to pray out loud at the same time in the room, even musicians. I want you guys to pray on your microphone. And we're just going to begin to pray for the loss. We're going to pray specific names of people we know, maybe family members. And we're believing that these prayers would shift things, that it would actually cause angels to be on assignment to bring forth open doors for the love of God to be poured in the hearts of people who are far from God. And it's too good not to give away. It's too good not to say, I've got the lottery tickets and I need to give the numbers away. I've got the one thing, his name is Jesus. And how could I not share him? How could I not pray for those who don't know him? So on the count of three, for a few minutes, I just encourage you, it doesn't have to be loud, it can be a whisper, but let's begin to all pray out loud at the same time and begin to ask that the Lord would move on behalf of the lost, the prodigals and those who don't know him. All right, ready? One, two, three. Father, we pray for the loss in our city, Lord, the loss in our county. We ask, Lord, that your spirit would go forth and Lord, that Jesus would go forth and that people's eyes would be open to a greater love, the greatest love ever seen. Lord, we pray that eyes would be open, ears would be tuned. God, we pray that laborers would be sent to bring the gospel, the gospel of power, not the gospel of information, but the gospel of power that has strength to save. And Lord, we say, thank you for bringing in your fold, those lost sheep, Lord, those prodigal sons and daughters. We ask, Lord, that you would stretch out your hand and you would save and you would pull them in, you would draw them in, you would lasso them in with your loving kindness. And Lord, I'm reminded that your word says that you're wishing that none would perish but that all would come to repentance, God. So Lord, in your long suffering and your loving kindness, Lord, we don't call you slow to act, but Lord, you are merciful and you are longing that all would come to repentance, Lord. So we ask, Holy Spirit, that you would utilize your saints, your bride, your angels, your throne, your power and you would stretch out your hand and you would save a generation that doesn't know you, a generation that doesn't know their right hand from their left. And God, I'm asking on behalf of the ones to come after me for my children's children, God, I pray that they would have a revelation and that they would know you. And right now I feel just a special grace to intercede for family members. God, we ask for family members that have walked away from you or that don't know you, Lord, that don't know your loving kindness, your grace, your mercy, your peace, God. Lord, I pray right now that they would have dreams in the night that Lord people would come up to them and they would say, do you know this Jesus? Do you know this man who purchased your sin? And Lord, we ask, bring them home. Bring them home. Adopt them into the family, Lord. May they choose you. God, I pray for strength to choose you. And we say, bring them home, Lord. Bring them into your folds. Bring them into your loving kindness, Lord. Bring them into your hand. May you shepherd them. May they be sheep of your pasture. We say, bring them home in the name of Jesus. Yes, I'm just going to encourage everyone to stand. We're going to sing this chorus to close. But let's make this our intercession. Lord, the multitude of souls separated from you right now. But we pray the blindfold come off and they would turn to you. And they would repent of their sin. And they would see the loving kindness in your eyes. Save souls. Yes, Lord, just as the spring season is coming, we ask that salvation would sprout from the ground. Those seeds planted over the years, God, we ask that you would increase. You would bring the increase. This morning we ask that the thankfulness that you've deposited in us, Lord, it would create an unction. It would create a response of intercession for those who don't know you, Lord. Lord, we pray for that contagious joy of the Lord. Wherever we walk, Lord, we pray that you would pour some salt on our life, that the world would taste and see that you are good, Lord. Lord, may we be a city on a hill that cannot be hidden. May we be the light of the world. And may it shine. May your glory rise upon your bride and your church. And may you draw all people to yourself, Lord. So Holy Spirit, we thank you for this morning hour. We thank you for your ministry, your leadership. And Lord, we don't leave this room without your leadership. But Lord, we ask you would lead us, guide us, whether we're watching online or whether we're watching at a different time or different hour, Lord. I pray that the Holy Spirit leadership would guide us into all truth and it would lead us to the souls that you're longing to have, Jesus. The souls that have been gone for decades, that have wandered and wandered, God, I pray that you would utilize us, that you would anoint us by your spirit to bring those home who are lost. Lord, here are your laborers. Here I am, like Isaiah said, send me, God. We love you, Lord. We just say thank you. We bless you. You're so worthy. You're so holy. You're so worthy. You're so holy. You're so other than. You're so greater than. And we just bless you this morning. We say use us, God. It's an honor to be your son and be your daughter. And we thank you for it in Jesus' name. Awesome. Well, we just want to say thank you for those joining us online and in the room. We're going to begin to shift towards a divo set. And so if you just want to linger, spend some time with the Lord, we're going to close our broadcasts. But if you're in the room, feel free to pull out your Bible, pull out your journal, and just process what the Lord's doing. But if you are in the room and you're leaving, we're going to ask that you take your conversations out of the room. We'll keep this kind of a quiet space. You can head to Match Head, get some coffee. But have a great day and we will see you at the noon hour. Thank you.